The Outsiders

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Summary: the outsiders
Review: Are you a spoiled kid who has a lot of money, cars, girls, and almost everything you want? Or are you a kid who has no family, the only thing you¡¦ve got is your friends? Well Ponyboy was a greaser, the same as having no family and only your friends. Ponyboy didn¡¦t mind this, actually he was proud of being a greaser. Things were going great for him and his gang, until this one night when a couple of Socs, (the rich kids) jumped Ponyboy and his friend. The most unexpected thing happened, his friend killed a Soc, the guys panicked and bailed out. Undercover, where nobody knew where they were, Ponyboy and his friend think of what to do, and after some time they go back home. Although things get even more worse¡K
This book was an excellent book. I couldn¡¦t stop reading it. This book is about the life of the people in the hoods, the people who don¡¦t have a family, or any money. This book is about differences between the rich and the poor. However at the same time this book is about the things common teenagers go through day to day. The author, S.E. Hinton was 16 years old when she wrote this book. Somehow it feels as if she knew everything about the life of a greaser, like how they lived, how they dressed and looked. She went into so much detail about their appearance that you can easily picture how they looked and acted. For example, the character Darry, she made him a strong, good looking, smart, and kind of fatherly like type of figure. The way she expressed him was so realistic. Anyways, enough said. If you want to know more, read it for yourself.

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Summary: Best Book I have ever read including all 4 harry potter book
Review: I loved the outsiders it was the best book i have ever read even though it is full of contrivesy it shows what the reall world is like it is amazing what this writter did at the age of 16 read this great book i dont wanna spoil anything 4 u so i wont talk about what happeneds but i will tell u about the curtis's
Darry the oldest of the three children , Soda the middle child and ponyboy who's parents are dead the are making it on their own darry and soda dropped out of school ponyboy is a straight a student

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Summary: You Can Read This One More Than Once
Review: Its incredible to step back into time -- into the time of the "Greasers" and the "Socs". Through the eyes of Ponyboy, a day dreaming Greaser, you'll experionce the conflicts between the different social groups, meet the harsh reality of the real world and of death. You can easily read this novel more than once. Its just that good!

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Summary: THE OUTSIDERS
Review: THE OUTSIDERS- A 14 YEAR OLD KID NAMED PONYBOY IS HAVING THE TIME OF HIS LIFE. ONE DAY HE GOT JUMPED AND THOUGHT "THINGS CAN'T GET ANY WORSE" WELL NOW HE'S WANTED FOR MURDER AND IS A HERO HIS BEST BUDDY IS DYING AND PONYBOY CAN'T DO NOTHIN' TO STOP IT. A BOOK ABOUT EVERYTHING CRASHING ON YOU WHEN YOU LEAST EXPECT IT.
OTHER GREAT BOOKS BY S.E. HINTON: RUMBLE FISH, TEX, THAT WAS THEN THIS IS NOW

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Summary: pure awesomeness!
Review: all i can say is wow. i cannot begin to describe how freakin awesome this book is. it really makes you think deeply about your life and problems you face.. and then you realize that everybody has problems.
this is an exciting book. i honestly couldnt put it down. i cried in a lot of parts and when i finished it i bawled. i highly reccomend reading this book, even if you think you wouldnt like it.... trust me you will!

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Summary: YOU HAVTA READ THIS BOOK!!!!
Review: This is one of my all time favorite books ( the other favorites by S.E. Hinton). I love how much the Socs and Hoods are so different. You have to trust me and GET THIS BOOK! I wasnt in to the fighting/gang thing but this is definitally not all about voilence. The book is packed with emotion and adventure and the ending is awesome. My cousin told me to read this book and when i started, I COULDNT PUT IT DOWN! this book really makes you think about yourself and especially about your friends and others you know. Just get the book and I almost guarenty you will love it. It was like the author knew what it was like to be a Hood like PonyBoy and Soda, and knew what they were treated like and how they treated people. I want to see the movie, i heard it was awesome, so just read it! hehe Amanda~

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Summary: Awesome book
Review: This book was really good.I recomend it to readers from the age 12-16.It is about to gangs the Greasers and the Socs(soch-us).They lie fight steal.One day Ponyboy and Johnny the two youngest Greasers get to carried away in a fight.Just read the book and you will find what happends next.

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Summary: The Outsiders
Review: This book is probably meant for the teenage reader. It goes through many situations that some teens face every day or will at least face at some point in their life. The plot was lined up in a correct manner for the book. The author followed the sequence of events in which they happened. I believe that if she were to try to tell the story by jumping around to main points, like some authors do, it would have confused the teens it was meant for. I liked the way she told about the characters as they came into the story line. She gave some background information on all of the greasers as they were asking Pony if he was all right. The style seemed like it was meant to be portrayed as if this were a scene from the 50's or 60's. This is shown when the author uses hair grease as a boundary between the two social groups. The book stirred little emotion from me due to the fact that I'm not caught up in the social standards that most people live in today. Whether it's due to money, gender, race, or something else most people have a way of making their own "gangs." Overall, I thought the book was interesting and it was able to keep me in the mindset of being one of the greasers. The ending is fitting to the book although it just seems that it is giving more problems to an already messed up world.

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Summary: The Outsiders
Review: I recently read The Outsiders for the first time for a class and I thought that it was very good book, with lots of life lessons, and lots of courage shown by the characters in the book.
I think that the ideal audience for this book is young adults. This book is written for young adults about young adults, and it was even written by S.E. Hinton when she was only 16. I think that this book used a lot of description, and it really made the scenes stick out in my mind, and made me feel like I was right there in the scene. The book was written very simply and not very challenging to read but I think that it is targeted towards younger readers. The book brought out a lot of emotions in me, like not being so judgemental towards people who are not as well off as me, or that don't dress nicely or don't have a lot of money. It also made me sad to see that their are kids out there that are killing and hurting each other. I know that it is something that happens a lot in this world but it is not something that I hear about that often. I would recommend this book to young adults as well as adults because I think that it has a lot of good points for both generations of people. As an adult people deal with predujice all the time. People are always worried about how much money people have and what types of clothes people are wearing. I think that if more adults read this book they would realize, just as some of the young adults that read it, that just because someone is different then you, doesn't mean that they are a bad person.

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Summary: A good Short Read
Review: This book was good read. I would recommend it to someone who thought that he or she had a bad life. S.E. Hinton really makes this a real life story.

She makes you think that you are right there and you are going through everything that the main character goes through. The book was based on boy that grows up without any parents in the "ghetto." He and his friends are in a neighborhood gang. I would recommend this book because it keeps you interested throughout the whole thing. So, if you are looking for a good short book, this is the one to read. This book was written so well that it gives you a mental picture. In the one part of the book the Socs and the Greasers get into a fight it gets pretty brutal. The author make you think that you are going through the pain that she describes.